Time well spent: 'U' English class shares talents with inmates
University students' commendable efforts to participate in their community have come under fire by one who should be supporting them. State Rep. David Jaye (R-Macomb) has recently criticized the University's English 319, Theater and Social Change, as an "outrageous waste" of tax dollars.
Starting new: State House looks to protect abused children
Home should be a place associated with safety and comfort. Parents should be expected to nurture and provide for their children. Yet for thousands of children in Michigan - and many, many more across the country - parents are not caretakers, but the perpetrators of abuse. When children are victims of abuse at the hands of their parents, they lose the valuable sense of security that home and family should provide.
Column: Take advantage of the time we have left; there isn't a lot of it
While registering for classes for next semester, a grand realization hit me, and I don't think that I was really ready for it. All at once, in a flash, there were true signs that this whole ride is coming to a screeching end, and it seems as if the days keep going by at breakneck speed.
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